Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Approximately 3 years ago, a man named Allan had seen this blog and seemed to rejoice in the messages. He identified himself to me as a "minister", a pastor as I recall.
He invited me to come and speak to his church group in the Philippines, at my own expense.
I responded by telling him I do not travel.
He shared some of my messages with his group. I recall that he shared with them that a minister should not call himself "Reverend".
The church group became very angry and demanded that he vacate the church housing property within one week. He had a wife and son and would have no place to live and he had no money.
I told him to get a secular job (like the apostle Paul did) and support his family ... to live below his means and allow money to accumulate.
(I don't think he had ever supported himself but from his youth he had depended upon that church group for his support. He said he had no money at all.)
I did not hear from him again. I think he returned to the doctrine of that church group and turned away from the Word from God and continued with that church group, likely living on church property.
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In November, 2019, I received an email from him asking me to send him food. There had been an earthquake where he lived.
I believe this man sacrificed the Word of God in order to be approved by his church group. Now when there is an earthquake, he turns to me for food.
I wondered what would have happened to him had he sacrificed his church group to allow himself to continue in the truth from God's Word and to live a godly life, upholding the Word of God.
Now he calls out to me, trying to put his trust in me.
If we fail to put our trust in God in the good times, how can we do in the times of problems?
Luke 23:29-31 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Certainly you cannot put your trust in your church group... or in me.
Only in God is it safe to trust.
When we do that which God gives us by HIS Word and continue in that Word, we will never fail.
Matthew 7:24-27 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
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In December, 2018, I fell at my house in Texas. As the ambulance people rolled me past my front door of this house where I was living, I heard: "You'll never see this house again."
While I was in hospital, I put "that" house up for sale.
I did not know where I would be going but I did know I would not return to "that" house for I believed that word which I heard from God.
God will make a way for us even in the midst of the problems when we make God our trust.
I do not believe this man trusts in God for his provision. I believe he trusts in humans.
(Can you imagine in the days of Noah when the rains kept coming? Surely they would have tried to get inside the ark. They likely pounded on the door of the ark trying to get in. But after Noah went into the ark, God shut him in. Genesis 7:16 )
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